Story Lineup

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oral

45 min.

Objectives

• The learner can understand a story.
• The learner can participate in storytelling.
• The learner can develop a story in a (chrono)logical way.
• The learner can take initiative.

Instructions

• Sit in a circle.
• Tell the learners you will create a story together, by each inventing a sentence.
• Let the first learner stand up and invent a sentence to start the story.
• Let a second learner stand up and invent a sentence to end the story.
• Let the others one by one invent a sentence and choose a position between the first and second learner, according to where they think their sentence belongs in the narrative line-up.
• Each time a learner joins the line-up, everybody repeats the added sentence.
• Once everyone has joined the line-up, the story is complete.